China Railways JF7

what is it?

The China Railways JF7 (解放7, Jiěfàng, "liberation") class steam locomotive was a class of 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotives operated by the China Railway, built by the North British Locomotive Company and assembled by the Tangshan Arsenal, as well as American builders between 1913 and 1924. Twenty-four of these locomotives were originally built for the Jingfeng Railway (also known as the Peking−Mukden Railway in English). After the Japanese established the puppet Provisional Government of the Republic of China in 1938 (part of the collaborationist Republic of China from 1940 to 1945), these and other privately owned railways in the territory of Provisional Government were nationalised to create the North China Transportation Company (a subsidiary of the South Manchuria Railway, which designated these the Mikana (ミカナ) class.

who runs it

KTKaiping Tramway and Imperial Railways of North ChinaNorth China Transportation CompanyChina State Railway Group

base stats

• weight 137 tin working order
• built 24made in total

Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.

fun facts

• 🎂First built 113 years ago, in 1913.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 23 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏20.7 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.

steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.

spec sheet

built

1913–1924

status

preserved

number built

24

kind

Steam

traction

steam

origin

🇹🇼 Taiwan

builders

North British Locomotive Company

operators

Kaiping Tramway and Imperial Railways of North China, North China Transportation Company, China State Railway Group

top speed

—

power

—

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

wheel arrangement

2-8-2

length

20.7 m

weight

137 t

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.